TPiR Recap - 10/7/2013 (2013 PCH Week Day 1)

[Roadgeek Adam]

Episode #6461K (2013 Publishers Clearing House Week Day I)
Aired – 10/7/2013; Taped – 8/19/2013
Models: Melissa Rycroft, Rachel Reynolds
Microphone Handoff: Rachel
First Four Contestant Seating: Right to Left

$100,000 extra is being given in prizes this week because Publisher's Clearing House is giving $20,000 for the first winner of their respective Pricing game.

First IUFB: Smartphone (Sony via Newegg: 13MP rear facing camer + calling plan); ARP: $1,600 (Melissa and Rachel)

CONSUELO	REGINA	DANIEL	JESSICA
975	1050	899	1200

The winner is...
JESSICA

Jessica is playing PUSH OVER for a trip to Belize (RT Coach to Belize for a 6n stay in a beach cabana at the Portofino Resort + daily breakfast, 1 dinner, 1/2 day snorkeling excursion) (Melissa).

8	5	3	9	6	4	0	7	1
									BELIZE

Jessica pushes the blocks to

					8	5	3	9	6	4	0	7
									BELIZE

ARP be...

					8	5	3	9	6	4	0	7
									5	3	9	6
									LOSS

 

Second IUFB: Pair of Bicycles (Wyatt: Single-speed bikes); ARP: $898 (Rachel)

CONSUELO	REGINA	DANIEL	ZACHARY
1700	700	1300	1200

The winner is...
REGINA

Regina, from Palmerton, Pennsylvania, is playing HOLE IN ONE for a 2013 Chevrolet Sonic (1.8L engine, MT, remote keyless entry; ARP: $15,595) (Melissa).

Regina has a chance to putt next to the hole if she can place the following items in order from lowest to highest:

• Aspercreme Pain Relief Cream
• Selsun Blue Shampoo
• Francesco Rinaldi Pasta Sauce
• Unisom Sleep Tabs
• Gold Bond Ultimate Diabetic Lotion
• Playtex Latex Gloves

Regina puts the items in this order:

					$500
GLOVES	PASTA SAUCE	LOTION	SHAMPOO	SLEEP AID	PAIN RELIEF CREAM

The ARPs are:

					$500
$4.49	$2.29	LOTION	SHAMPOO	SLEEP AID	PAIN RELIEF CREAM

Regina will putt from the 1st line.

Drew attempts the insipration putt...*MISS*

Regina attempts his/her putt...*MISS*

Drew changes the game to "Hole In One or Two"!

Regina attempts the second putt...*MISS*

LOSS

Third IUFB: Video Game Package (22-piece Nintendo 3DS, 2 consoles, starter kits, cases, road trip kits, 14 games); ARP: $1,000 (Melissa)

CONSUELO	DEVON	DANIEL	ZACHARY
778	777	1100	1

The winner is...
CONSUELO

Consuelo, from Whitier, California, is playing Do The Math for a new computer (Apple: 27in iMac with 32GB memory, 3TB HD, upgraded processor, printer) (Rachel) and designer accessories (Burberry: Leather tote, wallet, animal print scarf) (Melissa).

± $809 =

COMPUTER

ACCESSORIES

Consuelo believes it is

+ $809 =

COMPUTER

ACCESSORIES

+ $809 =

$3229

$2420

X

LOSS

SCSD #1

Contestant	Winnings	Spin 1	Spin 2	TOTAL	RESULT
Regina	$898	65	STAY	.65
Consuelo	$1,000	60	65	1.25	OVER
Jessica	$1,600	85	–	.85	*SHOWCASE*

Fourth IUFB: Home Theatre Speaker System (Harman/Kardon: 5.1 speaker system)s; ARP: $2,069 (Rachel)

KENDRA	DEVON	DANIEL	ZACHARY
1200	2000	950	2

The winner is...
DEVON

Devon is playing One Wrong Price for a motorscooter (Yamaha: Zumo 125 with 125cc engine, AT, electric start) (Melissa), a game table (Golden West Billiards: 4-in-1 game table) (Rachel) and a television (65in Plasma HDTV with powersave functions) (Rachel).

$3390	$4199	$1700
MOTORSCOOTER	GAME TABLE	TELEVISION

Devon picks the table...

$3390	$4199	$1700
$3390	$2495	$1700
	WIN	$20,000!!

Fifth IUFB: Designer Watch (Stuhrling Original); ARP: $2,199 (Rachel)

KENDRA	KATIE	DANIEL	ZACHARY
1100	850	1400	2000

The winner is...
ZACHARY

Zachary, from Phoenix, Arizona, is playing Punch-a-Bunch for a chance to win up to $25,000!

Item #1 (Libman Freedom Spray Mop) (Rachel):

$35

Guess: LOWER

LOWER
$22

Correct!

Item #2 (Marinade Bottle):

$8

Guess: HIGHER

HIGHER
$13

Correct!

Item #3 (Crock Pot):

$99

Guess: LOWER

LOWER
$60

Correct!

Item #4 (Portable Griddle):

$70

Guess: LOWER

HIGHER
$110

Wrong!

Zachary has 3 punches

$	2	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	3	$
$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
$	$	$	$	$	$	1	$	$	$

1. $100
   Throws it back.
2. $500
   Throws it back.
3. $250

LOSS (Total Winnings: $345)

Well, that time again. Welcome to the nominating committee, Daniel. The first four limo has been waiting patiently for someone and today it has nominated you. Daniel needs to get out of Contestant's Row now or a trip to Broadway, Ohio in his future.

Sixth IUFB: Range (30in stainless steel range); ARP: $1,299 (Melissa)

KENDRA	KATIE	DANIEL	CLARENCE
700	900	875	2600

The winner is...
KATIE

Daniel heads off to Broadway, while Katie is playing That's Too Much for a 2013 Dodge RAM 1500 Tradesman Regular Cab 4x2 (4.7L engine, 6-speed AT, popular equipment group) (Rachel).

$21,060

$22,145

$23,274

$24,498

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

ARP:

$24,070

WIN

$21,060

$22,145

$23,274

$24,498

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

$ $ $

SCSD #2

Contestant	Winnings	Spin 1	Spin 2	TOTAL	RESULT
Zachary	$2,544	95	STAY	.95
Katie	$25,369	100	–	1.00	*$1,000*
Devon	$27,585	75	30	1.05	OVER

Bonus...

Contestant	Winnings	Spin	Result
Katie	$26,369	85	*SHOWCASE*

THE FABULOUS SHOWCASES

Katie has the honors...

SC1 - Jessica

A MELISSA RYCROFT SHOWCASE

• Home Gym (Inspire Fitness: Home Gym with 32in LED HDTV) (Melissa)
• 2013 Mazda MX-5 Miata (2L engine, power windows, Convenience Package) (Rachel)

Bid: $24,500

SC2 - Katie

A RACHEL REYNOLDS SHOWCASE?!

• Trip to Big Sur (RT Coach to Monterey, CA then onto Big Sur for 4n stay in luxury room and visit Viper Beach) (Rachel)
• Trip to Bahamas (RT Coach to Harbor Island, Bahamas for a 5n stay in boutique resort + daily breakfast and snorkeling excursion) (Rachel)
• Trip to Greece (RT Coach to Santorini, GR for a 6n stay in seaview room at the Rocabella Santorini + daily breakfast, dinner, spa treatment, rental car) (Rachel)

Bid: $23,000

Jessica

$24,500

MAZDA

$27,924

$3,424

MAZDA

Katie

$23,000

TRIPS

$23,543

$543

TRIPS

*WIN*
$49,912

Results: 2 out of 6
Winnings: $83,539
Biggest Winner: Katie

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[Hag]

Not at all crazy about the new Hole putting shot. If they insist on using it, why not have a split screen showing both old and new angles.

[TinoStar11]

Do The Math needs a brighter "X" when the contestant is wrong. I barely can see it.

[MannyCav]

That Hole In One camera angle is a most horrid thing. On my SD screen, I couldn't even see the put or all of what was going on at the back end of the put. Additionally, a side view for this game is just wrong. I want a clear angle of any left-to-right variance with the balls path to (or away) from the hole, and a straight on-view is the best way to get that. Actually, for that matter, wanting a clear view down the putting green is something that never occurred to me because I always had it.

One Wrong Price was the only game that had anything resembling a neon "WIN ME!" sign. If that game had been lost due to a contestant going along the lines of, "The table is so obvious that it has to be something else" (that was my line of thought, I'm ashamed to admit--I've never seen anything quite like that table on the show before, meaning I had no firm grasp on what the price was, and the television looked like it could have been short maybe $400 to $500), the $20,000 would have been in serious jeopardy (That's Too Much was a bonus win on the side that was more likely not to happen than to happen). It would, however, have been interesting to see how they would have proceeded with the Publisher's Clearing House bonus had it advanced to Punch A Bunch, just to see if they would have actually went through with the expected $45,000 or $10,000 and below setup on finding the yet-not-won $25,000 when the game before was more like a 1 in 3 shot, if even that much.

[Bobby McBride]

Obviously, we weren't fans of the first half. Sad to see the HiO split-screen go.

At least things picked up in a hurry for the 2nd half & Katie even taking her RAM from TTM all the way to the Showcases & winning her tripcase (that truck was behind #3 both times it showed up, including the end).

[PriceBusterXL]

PCH Week begins............

THE BAD NEWS:

Pushover: Easy setup but it was still lost.

Do The Math: Well, we had the first win from the new game, so why not have the first loss from it?

Hole In One: 2 things were wrong with that game today:

1.) The setup from the grocery items
2.) The new camera angle.........Why would they insist on removing the split-screen? That's what made that game great. Once again, Mike and Co. is treating the show like a frog in Biology class and they are dissecting certain things from it.

Punch-A-Bunch: Just getting $250 is a loss to me.

THE GOOD NEWS:

One Wrong Price: I thought that the motorscooter was the wrong price, not the game table......Good thing that contestant got that right, along with the 20 Gs.

That's Too Much!: Katie really played that game well...........I was off by going one more. Not only she won the RAM, but FRATS as well.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Well, so starts another PCH Week where Drew keeps on saying "$20,000!"...........But it all depends when or if a contestant win a PG. He was on heavy rotation with that on the 1st half, but I'm glad the OWP win prevented him from going any farther.

Melissa Rycroft, of Bachelorette and Dancing With The Stars fame, was this week's guest model and she did fine........However, at the end of the day, I really do wish the rest of the current models came back. We're starting the 3rd week, and still no peep from them. Speaking of current models, I don't know why people would have a problem when Rachel was talking on the 2nd Showcase. I thought she did great with that and it was a good way her (or any Price model, for that matter) to be interactive, much like with Vanna on WOF.

Overall, another 2/6 show but I did like it. Time to see how the rest of the week progresses.

[Kyle]

Today's thoughts...

New graphics today in the opening with the Big Wheel being added into the Price is Right logo animation. While I neither like nor dislike it, I wonder why they can't leave things alone. More to the point, if they were going to change the opening sequence so soon, why didn't they get rid of those distracting spinning Pricedown dollars, instead? Laughably still, the trip screens during the parade of prizes at the end of the show still had the season 40 light-box on them. They'd be better served switching them around, I think.

That side-view angle of Hole in One is awful. How are we, the audience, supposed to judge if the ball is rolling left or right from that shot? Adam should have left well-enough alone instead of making change for the sake of change.

Now that I've seen a losing playing of Do the Math, I'm confident in saying that the reveal for a loss as carried out today needs re-tooling. The way Drew builds up the reveal does come off confusing. If he would ask "Does the price of the computer plus/minus $809 equal the price of the accessories", it'd be a much stronger reveal as opposed to just outright stating the equation, which he did today.

One Wrong Price was begging to be won.

Punch-a-Bunch was set-up pretty decently. Too bad more wasn't won.

That's Too Much! was a solid victory and it's always nice to see a winner in this game, however, to re-iterate a comment I made from last Friday's show (which was in reference to Lucky $even), this is the second time inside a week's time we've seen both Punch-a-Bunch and That's Too Much!. This can be levied at whoever makes the call to shuffle the airdates up instead of sticking to the production order. Part of the excitement of The Price is Right is supposed to be a varied array of games spread out across sometimes weeks at a time. Some of that excitement is lost when you're watching day to day and games you've recently seen crop up again so quickly... in this case, inside a week. True, such is the case with certain games like Plinko, Bargain Game and Double Prices Side By Side, but, to see both of these particular games again this quickly after they both appeared on last Thursday's show is rather disappointing.

Considering how much time was eaten up by Drew's explanation of the Publisher's Clearing House giveaway and things like that, I'm surprised that the show seemed to have so much time to spare today.

[PIR85]

There were good and bad with the show.

GOOD-
That's Too Much win! Yay.

Did anyone else notice the different opening graphic today? The transition to the on-screen logo was a bit different, and while the camera faded into door 2 (before it opens to Drew) the rotating dollar signs were gone. That was an improvement. Now if they could just get rid of the rotating dollar signs altogether in the opening.

BAD-
What the Hell was Adam smoking to even have the thought cross his mind to do a side angle of Hole in One... or Two. That was hideous and took all excitement out of the putt. I had no idea if the ball was even close. That directorial fail is even worse than the gimmicky light border.

Does anyone else notice how Drew treats the guest model vs. Rachel? I hear "Here's the beautiful Melissa"...and then "Here's Rachel." Some of the verbal and nonverbal treatment of the guest model makes it seem like he's more interested in the guest model than he is Rachel. And I'm sorry these girls have no idea how to be a Price model. Her sideways hand motion had no elegance. What's-her-face who was on the Breast Cancer show had absolutely NO clue how to calm down. She was fidgety and had some weird facial expressions. Normally I don't bash on people but when you are there to do one job and you come out looking like a clown on meth, I think it goes to show we need our Amber, Manuela, Gwen back.  Semi-related, I'm growing tired of two models per show. There ought to be 3 minimum.

[Mr. Weatherman]

Thanks to a brief power outage (don't know what the heck caused it, it's a beautiful day), I missed the second half of the show except for SCSD 2 and the showcases. Apparently, I missed the best part of the show...

From what I did see, however, I was very pleased to hear George actually read off the entire prize descriptions in Hole in One, as opposed to a brief description like usual. In fact, his car reveal was very much improved, as well. Instead of placing the emphasis on "new," or saying something like "brand new," he simply just said "new car" with emphasis on the "car," something he has been terrible of doing in the past. Since these shows were taped more recently, I'm really hoping these differences will carry over into later shows. For the first time since he took over the job, George actually sounded like a true announcer today (at least in the first half).

Drew also did a fantastic job hosting, as well. I felt like I was watching a Barker playing of Hole in One (with the exception of Adam's horrible directing and Mike's evil setup). Drew's inspirational putt combined with his joking about not being a golfer was very enjoyable, and despite the loss, it didn't feel like a typical loss that I have grown accustomed to seeing. Very well done, both Drew and George.

[DJTorgo]

No one likes the jib.  Not on the multi-prize games such as Bargain Game, One Wrong Price and Most Expensive.  Definitely not replacing the classic Hole in One putting shot.

Stop it.

I'm actually pleased that the setups weren't in super-easy mode just because PCH was around.

[Jordanar18]

So many interesting things about Hole in One that I don't know where to begin... but I will comment since it's one of my favorite games.  I really think they should do away with the inspiration putt.  It was one of Bob's signature moments on the show, and it just doesn't go well with Drew because he's really not a golfer.  It would also save some time on the game.

The new camera shot is both good and bad in my opinion.  It's good because it kind of feels like you're watching someone putt in a real golf tournament; however, it takes away seeing the contestant's reaction.  I would like it better if the camera didn't zoom in on the ball going to the hole and instead stayed in place the whole time.  Or better yet, just have the camera set up behind the hole with the contestant in the shot.

Not a big fan of the Do the Math loss reveal.  Come up with something different, or like TinoStar said, make a more stand-out X.  Also, any cash prize under $1,000 seems trivial (not to mention making the game more difficult).

Yes, OWP was very easy; however, they really needed to give away the $20K, and this was a good way to do it.

[GuyWithFace]

The new camera angle for Hole In One appears to be there for the same reason many other changes have been made in the past several years -- namely, as a "Look what we can do!" exclamation (or in this case, a "Look what I can do!" exclamation on the part of Mr. Sandler).

Normally I don't bash on people but when you are there to do one job and you come out looking like a clown on meth, I think it goes to show we need our Amber, Manuela, Gwen back.

Unfortunately, I believe the "job" of the guest models is to plug what show they are from and look pretty, nothing more. Being an actual model is clearly meant to be tertiary.

I really think they should do away with the inspiration putt. It was one of Bob's signature moments on the show, and it just doesn't go well with Drew because he's really not a golfer. It would also save some time on the game.

Removing the Inspiration Putt would also remove some of the fun of the game, and arguably remove its "hook".

[thepriceis_J]

The new camera shot is both good and bad in my opinion.  It's good because it kind of feels like you're watching someone putt in a real golf tournament; however, it takes away seeing the contestant's reaction.

I don't agree with this. I don't want to feel like I'm watching someone putt in a real golf tournament, I want to feel like I'm watching someone putt in a real golf tournament on television. When I'm watching golf on television, the initial shot I usually see when someone putts is a high angle. That gives depth. This shot is shallow. The previous shot worked the best because it was like you were watching golf on TV. You could tell if someone was going to make it or not and you could judge how much they missed it by. You really can't do that now. Also, as someone else stated it cuts off the action for the viewer at home in SD. This isn't Season 37, where they're still trying to figure out HD/SD set blocking. I'm surprised Adam didn't think about the SD folks when he cleared it. It's a terrible shot and I hope that is changed back the next time we see Hole.

Well...when you've got a contestant who doesn't realize that rubber isn't the cheapest thing in glove form and can't putt, it is just asking for trouble.

I'm really surprised they didn't set any of the games in the first half up for a slam dunk win. Hole in One was really the best shot and it didn't go the right way. I guess they wanted to make people watch the entire first half before handing out the 20K, which is why One Wrong Price was setup the easiest as a backstop if Hole failed.

Great win in That's Too Much. That was also nicely setup. It was a 1500 and they don't cost that much and since they started the game at 21K it gave the contestant a good shot.

I'm really, really tired of these guest models. It's annoying that we're only getting two model shows these first three weeks and it's doubly annoying that the only model is Rachel with a guest. And with the slate that they've announced it seems like we're going to see these two model guest shows at least until Thanksgiving. I hope Rachel gets a day off at some point and we see Amber, Gwen, Manuela, or Rob on these model/guest model shows.

[William]

I really think they should do away with the inspiration putt.  It was one of Bob's signature moments on the show, and it just doesn't go well with Drew because he's really not a golfer.

I missed the show today, but I'm guessing that Drew missed his putt.

Honestly, Drew has made the putt more often than not from what I've seen. In fact, I can hardly recall a time when he's missed.

Yeah, he may not be a golfer, but the line that he uses ("I don't even play golf, but let me show you how easy it is to make this putt...") works pretty good, IMO.

[noahproblem]

That new camera angle for Hole In One?   

I thought Melissa was Manuela with a new haircut at first (/me calls his eye doctor  ).

How easy was One Wrong Price?  Even if they used the correct price for the table ($2499) I still would have picked it because even the correct price looked too expensive.